Tag: Soviet
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Commie Crawler: 1990 Lada Niva
Here we have arguably the best Soviet car ever made – one so good that it’s still in production. Its the Lada Niva, the ultimate off-road hatchback! As a 1990 model, this is still Soviet, too, not only Russian.
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Lada Niva Somewhere in Russia
We love the Lada Niva here at Oddimotive! These offer hatchback looks and functionality with Jeep off-road capability and Eastern Bloc mystique. This one is offered be a zero feedback seller in Russia who provides previous little information. What could go wrong? Claimed mileage is 62K, but we imagine that’s kilometerage. The seller does claim…
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Celebrate the Failure of Socialism in Style!
The Trabi – does it really need an introduction. If you lived in East Germany and were lucky enough to be chosen to get a car; but not lucky enough to be of the ruling class, who didn’t follow their own rules, this was your car – either in sedan or wagon form. This example…
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Eastern Bloc Cars are Like Cockroaches
…or at least it appears this one survived Katrina. This is a rare NOLA Oddimobile, but if it was there for Katrina, it was stored away nicely in someone random-ass collection, as it appears to be in great shape. The seller claims ridiculously low mileage – so low that one would have to ask why…
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The Best Vehicle Ever Made in Ulyanovsk, Russia?
This just might be! It’s the UAZ-469, otherwise known as the goat. This was/is basically the commie Jeep. There was even an ill-fated attempt to build and sell these in the US. It always makes sense to bring low-cost vehicles from places with low labor cost and attempt to build them in a country with…
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Another Fly In/Drive Home?
Why not pop over to sunny Lithuania, buy a beach bar with tracks and drive it home, wherever that may be? Really, this is a pretty brilliant idea. It’s too bad for us US types that it’s in Lithuania. I can only imagine the permitting/legal fun that would come with trying to license this for…